James walvin biography

  • Biography James Walvin's published work has been largely in the field of slavery and modern British Social History.
  • James Walvin has published widely on slavery and the slave trade.
  • James Walvin is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of York, where he spent most of his career, alongside teaching positions and research.

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    A WORLD TRANSFORMED: SLAVERY IN THE AMERICAS AND THE ORIGINS OF GLOBAL POWER

    A World Transformed explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries. Arguing that slavery can only be fully understood by stepping back from traditional national histories, this book collects the scattered accounts of the most recent scholarship into a comprehensive history of slavery and its shaping of the world we know. Celebrated historian James Walvin tells a global story that covers everything from the capitalist economy, labour, and the environment, to social culture and ideas of family, beauty and taste.

    This book underscores just how thoroughly slavery is responsible for the making of the modern world. The enforced transportation and labour of millions of Africans became a massive social and economic force, catalysing the rapid development of multiple new and enormous trading systems with profound global consequences. The labour and produ

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    Spartacus Educational

    James Walvin is Professor of History Emeritus at University of York. He is the author or editor of thirty books. This includes Black Presence: A Documentary History of the Negro in England (), Black and White: The Negro and English Society, the winner of the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize and was described by the New York Times as one of the ` "Notable Books of the Year."

    Other books bygd James Walvin includes Beside the Seaside: Social History of the Popular Seaside Holiday (), Slavery and the Slave Trade (), Black Personalities in the Era of the Slave Trade (), English Urban Life (), England, Slaves and Freedom, () Football and the Decline of Britain (), Victorian Values (), Black Ivory: a History of British Slavery (), Questioning Slavery () The Quakers: Money and Morals (), Fruits of Empire. Exotic Produce and British Taste, () and a biography of Olaudah Equiano entitled An African's Life. The Life and Times of

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    Interview with James Walvin

    Professor James Walvin is at the forefront of the historical research on the subject of Britain and the slave trade. Throughout the bicentenary year he's assisted in a variety of museum displays, lectures and publications. In this interview he describes his work during and the role of the government in shaping and informing the marking of the th anniversary of the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade. The interview was conducted on the 12th of June between Professor James Walvin, Geoff Cubitt and Helen Weinstein, identified respectively as JW, GC and HW throughout this edited interview.

    GC: We wanted today to ask you to talk about the role of the government in shaping the bicentenary. What kind of a role has it been?

    JW: Well government I think came late in a way, inom think government came to it after parliament itself, if that makes sense. My initial involvement, and therefore the way inom see it, came about with my involvement through the Hous

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